MacBook
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“Most of my work happens on a MacBook, which I use for writing, email, and coding.”
Anne-Laure Le Cunff Interview, Neuroscientist · via Uses This 
“A MacBook, connected to an external monitor and, sometimes but not always, a keyboard and mouse.”
Katherine Yang Interview, Artist, developer, crafter · via Uses This 
“Up until recently I also used a MacBook, but it's on its last legs.”
Wren Brier Interview, Creative director (Unpacking) · via Uses This 
“When I want to do personal projects, I switch to my beloved 12-inch MacBook (they don't make them this small anymore 🥲) via a single USB-C cable, connected to a big ole Dell monitor.”
Serena Chen Interview, Interaction designer (Chrome) · via Uses This 
“After I was laid off at the beginning of the pandemic and had to ship my work laptop back, I was terrified that my brick of a 2010 MacBook, complete with non-functioning CD/DVD drive, would die and leave me with no computer.”
Joshua Eaton Interview, Freelance investigative reporter · via Uses This 
“My 10-year-old MacBook died early on in the pandemic, and since then I've used my work-issued Dell laptop for everything.”
Caitlin Dewey Interview, Enterprise reporter · via Uses This 
“In a normal world, I split my time between my tiny gold MacBook and my custom-built Windows PC at home.”
T.C. Sottek Interview, Executive editor (The Verge), founder (The Adventure Guild) · via Uses This 
“When I'm working on the go, I use my little (discontinued!) 12-inch rose gold MacBook.”
Jordan Erica Webber Interview, Presenter, podcaster · via Uses This 
“The hardware I use the most is my MacBook.”
Langan Kingsley Interview, Writer, performer · via Uses This 
“Before this, I was using a refurbished Macbook happily for several years.”
Xanda Schofield Interview, Computer science lecturer, Cornell · via Uses This 
“I have a MacBook from 2011!”
Olivia Kingsley Interview, Writer, performer, director · via Uses This 
“I travel with a tiny pink Macbook.”
Roxane Gay Interview, Writer, associate professor · via Uses This 
“I have a hand-me-down MacBook of ambiguous vintage which I use as a front end to an old Dell I picked up from Free Geek for fifty bucks.”
Dorian Taylor Interview, Entropy schlepper, maker of toys and diversions · via Uses This 
“My main computer is a 12" MacBook.”
Em Lazer-Walker Interview, Interactive artist, developer · via Uses This 
“Finally, I have a 12" MacBook that I mostly use to write on or edit simple front end code in the café.”
Robyn Kanner Interview, UX designer (Amazon), co-founder (MyTransHealth) · via Uses This 
“I have one of the new 12" MacBooks that doesn't have real USB, it drives me bananas on a daily basis and I'm the only person in my office who can't get a dual display working even though I have the newest computer.”
Lorena Cupcake Interview, Freelance writer, music editor · via Uses This 
“I spend my nights and mornings reviewing notes and writing, mostly on my 12" Retina Macbook.”
Christina Xu Interview, Ethnographer, organizational designer · via Uses This 
“My older white Macbook from 2006 has been repurposed as my "entertainment center" for watching movies and TV online.”
Catherine Mulbrandon Interview, Designer (Visualizing Economics) · via Uses This 
“I do everything on my old white 13" MacBook so I was pretty gutted when I spilt red wine over it and it was in repair for five weeks.”
Chloe Cross Interview, Writer (VICE) · via Uses This 
“I have a 13-inch MacBook I use for making Mac ports and testing.”
Brendon Chung Interview, Indie game developer (Blendo) · via Uses This 
“I have a beyond shitty "black" Macbook from 2006.”
Jason Forrest Interview, Musician, founder (Network Awesome) · via Uses This 
“I also have a 13-inch MacBook from 2007 that is nearly decommissioned, but aside for a battery that's dead, works well.”
Samuel Arbesman Interview, Writer, complexity scientist · via Uses This 
“I'm writing this on my trusty unibody Macbook, which I got early in 2009 before they were all MBPs.”
Joanne McNeil Interview, Writer, editor · via Uses This 
“I use a 15" Macbook, that I got from sister after my old laptop (a Dell, I know, I know) was stolen.”
Brian Brophy Interview, Photographer, attorney · via Uses This 
“I'm on a MacBook 6.1 from a couple years ago.”
Sean T. Collins Interview, Writer (comics, Rolling Stone, BuzzFeed) · via Uses This 
“While traveling or at the office I have a dual-book Win7/OS X MacBook that I'm getting rid of soon due to it not actually being very good (don't tell anyone).”
Ryan North Interview, Cartoonist (Dinosaur comics) · via Uses This 
“I spend most of my time glued to my two year old 13" MacBook.”
Kris Piotrowski Interview, Creative director and co-founder (CAPY) · via Uses This 
“I'm on one of those first-unibody-model MacBooks that came out a couple years ago and lives in no-man's land between a standard MacBook and a MacBook Pro.”
Ben Kamens Interview, Lead developer (The Khan Academy) · via Uses This 
“My main machine is a 13" unibody Macbook.”
Matt Biddulph Interview, Prototyper, strategy guy (Nokia/Dopplr) · via Uses This 
“At home, I was using a black MacBook.”
Keita Takahashi Interview, Game designer (Katamari Damacy) · via Uses This 
“I've got a beat up 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo white Macbook.”
Laura Khalil Interview, Marketer, puzzler, robot builder · via Uses This 
“Laptops - Sony Vaio 13" Laptop for travel/meetings (weighs nothing, lasts 8 hrs on single charge, awesome bright screen) & Macbook 13" for home (weighs more, battery sucks, but I like the UI) - I do a lot of work while traveling - either presenting current projects or writing something new.”
American McGee Interview, Game designer · via Uses This 
“I do all of my development exclusively on my 13" aluminum macbook.”
Adam Saltsman Interview, Game designer (Canabalt) · via Uses This 
“I carry the MacBook between home and office; in each location I make a wireless connection to the net, but plug in a second monitor.”
Steve Jackson Interview, Game designer · via Uses This 
“I lovingly mistreat my black MacBook 13" (4G, also w/mini-dvi to VGA).”
Violet Blue Interview, Writer, speaker, sex educator · via Uses This 
“I do everything serious on my trusted white MacBook.”
Alex Kohlhofer Interview, Web developer (Weewar, Spreedly, No Kahuna) · via Uses This 
“All my email and general non-coding is done on a very busted white MacBook 2GHz with 2GB of memory, bits of missing plastic to the right of the trackpad, and a variety of interesting cracks all over it.”
James Thomson Interview, Mac developer (DragThing, PCalc) · via Uses This 
“The other computer I use is a new aluminum MacBook with the light-up keyboard.”
Jona Bechtolt Interview, Half of the band YACHT · via Uses This
